{"id":938,"date":"2020-06-02T22:17:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T12:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brolly.com.au\/?p=938"},"modified":"2020-11-12T08:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T21:51:21","slug":"bot-social-media-data-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brolly.io\/au\/blog\/2020\/06\/02\/bot-social-media-data-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Bot or not? The fascinating data behind social media influence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Data science &amp; social media<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You don\u2019t have to be a data nerd to love this research \u2013 but it helps!\u00a0 Dr Timothy Graham, a Senior Lecturer at QUT,\u00a0 has been working on some fascinating research about how information \u2013 and misinformation \u2013 spreads. Articles cover the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-2019-election-on-twitter-watergate-mums-and-well-organised-independents-117182\">2019 Australian federal election<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/bushfires-bots-and-arson-claims-australia-flung-in-the-global-disinformation-spotlight-129556\">Australia\u2019s recent bushfires<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/when-a-virus-goes-viral-pros-and-cons-to-the-coronavirus-spread-on-social-media-133525\">the spread of misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our takeaways<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 reputation and trust matter more than ever in times of high anxiety. Identifying authentic sources of information becomes critically important, and maintaining records essential.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data science research team reveals fascinating findings about how automaton and bots spread information &#8211; and disinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.6 (Yoast SEO v25.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The data behind social media influence | Brolly<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Reputation and trust matter more than ever in the age of digital. 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